On Thursday, May 13th, CSDE Training Director and Research Scientist Christine Leibbrand will present on “Preventing and Identifying Fraud in Survey Data Collection”, as part of a UW Office of the CISO information security briefing. With a plethora of online platforms for collecting survey data, advertising surveys, and paying participants, it has become easier than ever to collect survey data. However, with those opportunities has come increasing risk that survey data will be hacked and the tools fraudsters have to hack surveys have become increasingly sophisticated. This workshop will serve as an introduction to ways in which your survey may be hacked, factors that increase your risk of experiencing fraud in your results, and strategies for preventing and identifying fraud in your data. The workshop is especially suited to researchers who are interested in fielding surveys through online platforms such as REDCap, Qualtrics, or Survey Monkey. To join the workshop, email malbin@uw.edu for a Zoom link.
Computational Demography Working Group: Talk by Tim Thomas from Urban Displacement Project (05/17/2021)
On May 17 at 3pm (Pacific), Dr. Tim Thomas will be speaking about his research on housing and evictions based at the Urban Displacement Project. Thomas is the Research Director of the Urban Displacement Project. His research focuses on how neighborhood change, housing, and displacement affects household socioeconomic stratification by race and gender in the United States. Tim is also the Principal Investigator for the Evictions Study, a multi-metropolitan analysis on the neighborhood drivers of eviction using census data and text mining court records. The Zoom link for the talk can be found here. More information about the Computational Demography Working Group talks can be found here.
CSDE Family Planning & Reproductive Health Working Group: Contraceptive Autonomy in the Context of Global Family Planning Programs (05/26/2021)
Join the CSDE Family Planning and Reproductive Health Working Group’s second working group meeting on May 26, 2021 from 10.30 – 12.00 noon (Pacific Time).
~ Claire Rothschild, Aasli Nur, Sara Curran & Liz Harrington
Description:
Despite the global consensus that family planning programs should be voluntary and rights-based, there have been few efforts to systematically measure contraceptive coercion – and, by contrast, contraceptive autonomy – in the context of global family planning programs. The May meeting of CSDE’s Family Planning Working Group will focus on the multifaceted ways that global family planning programs can support or restrict an individual’s ability to exercise informed choice in their decision to use or not to use contraception. We will explore the variety of forms of contraceptive coercion in the context of family planning service delivery programs. We will also discuss a novel proposal for conceptualizing and measuring contraceptive autonomy. To join the meeting, click here.
Invited speaker:
Dr. Leigh Senderowicz is a mixed-methods researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Health Disparities Research program. In 2019, she earned her doctorate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of Global Health and Population. Her research focuses on reproductive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care, health equity and reproductive freedom.
Workshop required readings:
Senderowicz, L. (2020), Contraceptive Autonomy: Conceptions and Measurement of a Novel Family Planning Indicator. Studies in Family Planning, 51: 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12114
Senderowicz, L (2019) “I was obligated to accept”: A qualitative exploration of contraceptive coercion. Social Science & Medicine, 239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112531
Clara Berridge’s AARP/FPF Presentation Available on YouTube!
CSDE Affiliate and UW Social Work Assistant Professor Clara Berridge provided a keynote lecture on Adding Age to AI: The Importance of Representing Older Adults in Data and Design, as part of a joint AARP & Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) event on March 18th, 2021. If you missed the presentation, the recording is now available on YouTube.
Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid: Bayesian Models and Applications
At the CSDE seminar on May 14th, Dr. Carl Schmertmann will present “Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Period: Bayesian Models and Applications”. CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield will moderate the discussion. Dr. Schmertmann will present a new Bayesian method for providing estimates of the total fertility rate (TFR) and quantifying the uncertainty of those estimates with incomplete or inadequate vital registration, and the application of this method to indigenous populations in Brazil for which TFR has not been previously estimated. Dr. Schmertmann is the William J. Serow Professor of Economics at Florida State University and the Director of FSU’s Center for Demography and Population Health.
Register for Dr. Schmertmann’s Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.
After the seminar, UW Statistics PhD Candidate Jessica Godwin will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Schmertmann. RSVP by emailing her at jlg0003@uw.edu
Join us for NICHD Population Dynamics Branch Funding Briefing!
On May 26 @8:30 am, Dr. Rosalind King, Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) Program Director will join CSDE for an hour long briefing about funding opportunities through the branch and NICHD. After a brief presentation and overview of PDB’s priorities and mission, Dr. King will answer questions from participants. Dr. King is both a PDB Program Director and Associate Director for Prevention at NICHD. Additionally, Dr. King chairs the institute’s Reproductive Health Interest Group and serves as a project scientist for the Science of Behavior Change Program within the NIH Common Fund.
Register for this event here and join us by zoom for the webinar!
Attend the PAA Meeting 2021!
Join CSDE scholars this week, during the PAA! CSDE is represented throughout the program and it’s great to see!
Follow this link to view a handy list by date for all CSDE faculty, staff, and students participating at the #PAA2021. The link to join the PAA meetings is here and you will need to register. Once into the site, you can search by last name to find these authors’ sessions or look up the oral session, flash session, or poster session. We’ve also created a downloadable PDF with this same information for your ease of reference.
Congratulations! Fan and Vignau Loria Win IPUMS Research Paper Award
CSDE Alum Dr. Xinguang Fan (Peking University) and CSDE Trainee Maria Vignau Loria (Sociology) have won the IPUMS Global Health Research Award for their recently published article in Demographic Research titled Intimate Partner Violence and Contraceptive Use in Developing Countries: How Does the Relationship Depend on Context? Fan and Loria resolve a puzzle in prior research on intimate partner violence (IPV): Why is the relationship between IPV and contraceptive use negative in some countries and positive in others? Using 30 IPUMS DHS samples from 17 countries, the authors demonstrate that the relationship between IPV and family planning is modified by macro contextual factors, including legal prohibitions and national levels of female empowerment. This study stands out not just for answering an important social science question but also in its creative use of the broad range of information collected in the DHS, including variables on contraceptive use and type, family size preferences, husband-wife disagreement on fertility goals, various indicators of women’s status (e.g., education, employment, decision-making), and domestic violence. In addition, the authors draw on IPUMS DHS variables to determine the direction of causality: from the experience of IPV to increased contraceptive use, rather than from contraceptive use to increased incidence of IPV.ta from IPUMS DHS, with informative maps displaying findings across countries and regions.
Neal Marquez Featured In NYT News Report On COVID-19 Infection/Spread In ICE Facilities
CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez was featured last weekend in a New York Times investigation report on how neglect and secrecy helped fuel COVID outbreaks both inside and outside ICE detention facilities (skip to 9:00 in video if you want to get to his bit). The report highlights that the botching of COVID protocols and a lack of protections for migrants being held in ICE facilities create major risks for COVID infection – infection rates were 5 times that of prisons and 20 times that of the general population. Furthermore, these numbers pose a threat to spreading to the surrounding communities, but ICE’s sparse data on daily infections among detainees and staff makes it difficult to track COVID’s spread within the facility and the community at large.
Karen Fredriksen Goldsen’s Leading Lights Presentation Available on YouTube!
CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen Goldsen provided a keynote lecture on Science to Impact: Linking Lives to Disrupt the Cycle of Social Isolation in the Midst of COVID-19, as part of the UW School of Social Work’s Leading Lights Speaker Series on April 1st, 2021. If you missed the presentation, the recording is now available on YouTube.